Creating Equal Opportunities for a Healthy Weight Workshop Summary (2013) / Chapter Skim
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Appendix B: Speaker Biographical Sketches
Appendix B: Speaker Biographical Sketches
Pages 103-112
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In the past few years, she has participated in many local initiatives, such as the Department of Public Health's Early Childhood Obesity Prevention Project and Los Angeles County's Healthy Weight for Women of Reproductive Age Learning Collaborative. Currently, she serves as cochair of the Los Angeles Adolescent Health Collaborative Steering Committee.
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Ryan M Buchholz, M.D., practices pediatrics and internal medicine at Unity Health Care, a community health center that serves an ethnically diverse immigrant community in Washington, DC, and is the medical home for more than 22,000 patients.
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She conducted focus groups with African American children and families on Chicago's South Side to assess community habits and preferences regarding nutrition and exercise behaviors, and used these insights to implement a community-based, family-oriented diabetes risk reduction program for African American youth. This program, the Reach-Out Chicago Children's Diabetes Prevention Project, was subsequently adapted for use in the after-school setting as the Power-Up After-School Collaborative Child and Family Obesity Prevention Program.
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Lori Dorfman, Dr.P.H., directs Berkeley Media Studies Group (BMSG) , a project of the Public Health Institute, overseeing BMSG's research, media advocacy training, and strategic consultation for public health advocates and professional education for journalists.
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on numerous boards and committees, including the IOM committees on Nutrition Standards for Foods in School, Local Government Actions to Prevent Childhood Obesity, and Front of Package Nutrition Rating Systems and Symbols. Her previous positions include serving as policy analyst with the U.S.
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Dr. Hammond currently serves on the editorial board of the journal Childhood Obesity, on the steering committee for the NIH Comparative Modeling Network of the National Collaborative on Childhood Obesity Research, and as a member of the NIH MIDAS (Models of Infectious Disease Agent Study)
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Kellogg Food and Fitness Initiative. Her efforts to produce culturally appropriate nutrition and physical activity education training and policy resources emphasizing youth leadership are nationally recognized, and she has provided training, technical assistance, and consultation to community and after-school organizations and numerous local, state, and national agencies, including 100 Black Men of America, Inc.; the South Dakota Lakota Sioux Diabetes Education Project; Region 10, U.S.
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As health commissioner, Dr. Schwarz has worked to initiate antiobesity and smoking cessation programs, condom promotion efforts, electronic health records for the city's eight federally qualified (look-alike)
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Dr. Thompson has led efforts involving planning and implementing health care financing reform; worked with tobacco- and obesity-related health promotion and disease prevention programs in Arkansas, including documenting the state's success in halting the progress of the childhood obesity epidemic; and helped implement ARHealthNet, Arkansas' health insurance waiver for lowincome workers.
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112 CREATING EQUAL OPPORTUNITIES FOR A HEALTHY WEIGHT current member of the Standing Committee on Childhood Obesity Prevention. He earned his M.D.
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